LPC or SAM7?

"Anthony Fremont" <anyone@nospam.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Anthony Fremont wrote:
>> Does it even matter?  I've been doing the smaller micros (PIC, 8052,
>> etc) in assembler for quite a while now, and I'd like to tinker with
>> some ARM type stuff using C (gcc will be fine).  I want to be able to
>> use TCP/IP on the board.  Looks like Olimex makes some pretty decent
>> looking dev boards for cheap, but I don't know if I should lean
>> towards the LPC line or the SAM7. What say ye?
>>
>> thanks for reading
>
> I haven't been ignoring you all, I've just been busy reading up a ton of
> ARM material between bouts of "ordinary" work.  Thanks for all the input,
> sounds like the key factor for me in choosing a platform is what
> peripherals are present.
>
> Now Olimex has gone on a month long vacation and sparkfun doesn't have the
> board I'd like in stock.  :-(  I'll probably go ahead and get something
> with network and a hitachi type LCD.  The SAM7 thing that I liked had a
> Nokia color LCD.  I'm thinking that would be fun to tinker with, but a
> free available TCP/IP stack and network jack are the key things I want to
> mess with right now.
>
> Thanks again.  :-)
>
>

www.freertos.org has a free TCP/IP stack for the SAM7X.

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Best Regards,
Ulf Samuelsson
This is intended to be my personal opinion which may,
or may not be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB